“If you do well in school, maybe one day we can send you to a college in America” is often the narrative many international students, especially those from South and East Asia, have grown up hearing from their parents. It was like our own version …
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Don’t Throw Shoes throws down at improv tournament
Sally Kershner Features Editor The College of Wooster’s improvisational comedy group Don’t Throw Shoes (DTS) competed at the College Improv Tournament on Jan. 28 in Columbus, Oh. Returning to the stage this school year, DTS competed once again against other improv troupes from the lower …
New music ensemble celebrates African heritage through song
Lily Iserson Chief Copy Editor Western music departments and Western cultures, according to percussion instructor Professor Jeff Neitzke, are sometimes victims of their own ethnocentricity. “There’s a tendency to view music and almost everything else through personal experience,” said Neitzke. “Yet music around the world …
Portlandia returns for fun-filled seventh season
Jared Berg Editor In Chief Portlandia, the critically acclaimed yet perpetually commercially underrated sketch comedy series from IFC, recently debuted its seventh season. While only four of ten episodes have aired, the sampling is more than enough to say that the seventh season stays true …
Lecture series returns with focus on environment
Ellie Kahn Contributing Writer As the world becomes increasingly more aware of the devastating effects of climate change, fully comprehending the effects on the environment, as well as the large role that we as a society have played within these changes can be a challenge. …
New exhibitions on display at College of Wooster Art Museum
Desi LaPoole Contributing Writer When you first walk into Allison Saar’s show “Breach,” you are met with the striking figure of a curvaceous woman put together with rusted tin as she balances a tower of trunks, washtubs and cast iron skillets on her head. The …